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Lobster · Posted: Sat 05 May 2007, 03:57 Post subject:

Hello Ladies . . .

I'm in (posting from Gal Pup now)

Thanks Raffy, thanks Laurent.

Used the puppy pfix = ram option and during the graphics set up changed to serial mouse
So now with a serial mouse (no USB) and I got in with xorg - but mouse would not work
plugged in the ps2 mouse
pressed ctrl + alt + backspace and ran xorgwizard
xwin

Now I have xorg, working (but very jerky) mouse and full access to the games and internet

This has a LOT to explore. Might powerdown and remove serial mouse

lvds · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 315 Location: Near the window

Hi all,

@Lobster and Raffy,

This happens since i have updated the puppyserialdetect coming from Dougal. In /usr/sbin you will find a backup of the previous version of puppyserialdetect in case of need.

I have also noticed it is ok with an USB mouse and Xorg BUT your usb have to be plugged on an USB port with electric alimentation. I have tested on other computers and not all USB ports are the same. For example in a notebook with 4 usb ports, only 1 port was able to handle the mouse correctly !

So test your mouse on every usb ports you have. Meanwhile, we need to connect Dougal to this and send him reports on differents mouse behavior we might find.

I suggest to stay with the new puppyserialdetect from Dougal.

Another trick, on a 3 year old computer i had to disable USB LEGACY for having the USB mouse running ok in Xorg.

I hope you will persist as i can assure you it runs very fine once you have found your needed config. And i think we are working like guides because soon v2.16 will be out with the same updated scripts Wink

Best regards,
Laurent.

lvds · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 315 Location: Near the window

drongo · Joined: 10 Dec 2005 Posts: 352 Location: UK

Thanks lvds,

Posting from xPand v2.15 Barbie revamped now. Had mouse problems with a touchpad on a laptop but I'm on a desktop now. I'm impressed that one of your two extra USB wifi drivers happens to match my wifi stick.

Like the eclectic collection of links, screensavers, changing wallpaper and all that good stuff.

Incidentally, I think Lobster meant "Barbie" to refer to the Australian term for barbecue not the pink-obsessed plastic doll!

Actually, Lobster, can you think of a good code-name for the hermaphrodite version of Puppy that the alien yclept Geoffrey will be creating for us?

drongo

Very Happy

lvds · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 315 Location: Near the window

Hi,

For all people having mouse problems or usb problems i encourage to post details into this thread
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=17575
so to let know Dougal about and eventually solve problems.

It will be best than to post here. Also send your mouse status by doing the following:

- in a terminal type "puppyserialdetect" and copy results
- in a terminal type "cat /proc/bus/input/devices" and copy results

This will be very helpfull.

Best regards,
Laurent.

cthisbear · Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 3204 Location: Sydney Australia

( lvds

For all people having mouse problems or usb problems i encourage to post details into this thread )

Unfortunately here is a reason why women won't run a computer.
Let alone introduce people to Puppy...but hey! you have to do this to get it working.....that's a Vista approach.

The last thing I want after fixing Windows machines is to boot up with
a problem.
I have often mentioned I still run Puppy 1.07 for Banking etc...brilliant for its time and still going strong.

Puppy has gone way past this point of mouse detection and I am sorry but this aint good enough. Like a cake entered into a contest, with the finest ingredients in it.. and not baked long enough.

A day or 2 more testing with happier results.
Even put it out as as Test release...with appropriate warnings.>>Mouse detection will be crap etc.

I don't want to go to command lines or whatever to get it working.
Not interested..no matter how many hours went into it.

Ungrateful ...yes. Unreasonable ..yes.
But this is why Linux distros need to work period.
It's not 10 years ago and hours spent trying to install some distro like Mandrake etc. No wonder people hated Linux if those samples were their
introduction to Linux.
Stupid is stupid and dumb is dumb.

Teen Puppy was a goer because just about everything worked out of the box. And the Bloody mouse worked.

Chris

Lobster · Posted: Sun 06 May 2007, 01:04 Post subject:

I was in my local cheapo computer store looking for a $4 USB mouse. They had serial and ps2 but no £1.99 USB

I tried a USB games controller too ...

lvds · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 315 Location: Near the window

Hi,

I have tested a lot and found all USB mouse was working fine in eXpand v2.15 without having nothing else to do.

If you have a PS2 mouse not reacting because of the newer version of puppyserialdetect please help improve by sending tests results as explained above. I am sure we will all be able to upgrade new releases so to satisfy everybody as far as we remain calm and act positively.

As far as i know Teenpup and other distro uses the previous puppyserialdetect version and when testing i have not been able to use them with usb mouse, though ps2 mouse works ok on them.

It have been a choice on our local area to use software compatible with USB mouse for two reasons:
1. computers sold nowadays comes with USB mouse. It is the future. PS2 mouses are from the past.
2. we had many tests with ps2 mouse plugged into an USB adaptor and it worked very good.

Best regards,
Laurent.

Fiberflinger · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 223

I like the kitty cat. Not big on flowers. But they are really cool.

FF

raffy · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4734 Location: Manila

Serial mouse works, so better buy that mouse from the store. Smile

lvds · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 315 Location: Near the window

lvds · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 315 Location: Near the window

Hi,

The bug causing mouse problems is now corrected. We had many tests and no problem report so far, so people are using it ok here.

An update of eXpand Office is now available for those of you interested

http://securexp.free.fr/eXpand215b-office.iso

Filesize: 454422528
md5sum: c363de07608a50ffc1c4c15cc6b69627

I will also update the link for eXpand - Barbie Revamped when uploads will be over.

Thanks again for your support, we apologize for inconvenience caused by this bug.

Best regards,
Laurent.

lvds · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 315 Location: Near the window

Hi,

I have edited the first post of this thread to update the link and md5sum and filesize to the new ones. Thanks to MU and PKAG the file is mirrored with others iso files.

This release of eXpand215b-Barbie_Revamped hopefully correct the mouse bug some of you encountered.

FILE IS AVAILABLE HERE:
http://puppyisos.org/isos/2007-01-to-06/eXpand215b-Barbie_Revamped.iso
File size: 313434112
md5sum: b9f7b17a9c2ba4c34998b57b4d9c5f50

Best regards,
Laurent.

raffy · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4734 Location: Manila

Could you please post here the corrected file or link to it? That can save users' bandwidth. Smile

Thanks.

Tui

Hi all on this chat topic, after my many remarks regarding the problem
with network detection ! The detection WIZ wants to keep installing my wireless
device - Trouble is I don't have one ! Itjust won't detect my onboard enet chipset.
After manual selection within the drivers window, it reports as cant find. This
version has the problem of puppy v2.15CE-RC2; -RC3; -RC4 and v2.15CE-FINAL !

Puppy v2.15CE-RC1 works fine regarding the detection of onboard chipset.

Cheers
Tui